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   Taunt

   /tônt/

   

   noun

   • 1. a remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone: "pupils will play truant rather than face the taunts of classmates about their ragged clothes"

   verb

   • 1. provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks: "students began taunting her about her weight"
   • ▪ reproach (someone) with something in a contemptuous way: "you once taunted me taunted me with cowardice because I dared not face the world and conquer it"

   Word Origin early 16th century: from French tant pour tant ‘like for like, tit for tat’, from tant ‘so much’, from Latin tantum, neuter of tantus. An early use of the verb was ‘exchange banter’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. taunter noun

   Scrabble Points: 5

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